Plant disease control composition and its use

ABSTRACT

A composition comprising a carboxamide compound represented by following formula (I), wherein R 1  represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, and R 2  represents a methyl group, a difluoromethyl group or a trifluoromethyl group, and ethaboxam is provided by the present invention. This composition has excellent effect for controlling plant disease.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present invention relates to a plant disease control composition and its use.

BACKGROUND ART

Many compounds have been developed for controlling plant disease and actually used (see, for example, PTL 1 and 2).

CITATION LIST Patent Literature

[PTL 1]: WO86/02641

[PTL 2]: WO92/12970

SUMMARY OF INVENTION Technical Problem

An object of the present invention is to provide a composition having an excellent effect for controlling plant disease.

Solution to Problem

The inventor of the present invention studied for seeking a composition having an excellent effect for controlling plant disease and found that a composition comprising a carboxamide compound represented by the following formula (I) and ethaboxam has an excellent effect for controlling plant disease and then completed the present invention.

The present invention provides the following [1] to [5].

[1] A plant disease control composition comprising a carboxamide compound represented by formula (I):

wherein

R¹ represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, and

R² represents a methyl group, a difluoromethyl group or a trifluoromethyl group, and ethaboxam.

[2] The plant disease control composition according to the above [1], wherein the weight ratio of the carboxamide compound to ethaboxam is from 0.1/1 to 10/1 of carboxamide compound/ethaboxam.

[3] A method of controlling plant disease which comprises a step of treating a plant or the soil where a plant grows with an effective amount of a carboxamide compound represented by formula (I):

wherein

R¹ represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, and

R² represents a methyl group, a difluoromethyl group or a trifluoromethyl group, and ethaboxam.

[4] The method of controlling plant disease according to the above [3], wherein the weight ratio of the carboxamide compound to ethaboxam is from 0.1/1 to 10/1 of carboxamide compound/ethaboxam.

[5] The method of controlling plant disease according to the above [3] or [4], wherein the plant or the soil where a plant grows is soybean or the soil where soybean grows, respectively.

Advantageous Effect of Invention

According to the present invention, various plant diseases can be controlled.

DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS

The plant disease control composition of the present invention (hereinafter referred to as “composition”) comprises a carboxamide compound represented by formula (I):

wherein

R¹ and R² represent the same meanings as defined in the above (hereinafter referred to as “carboxamide compound”),

and ethaboxam.

The “carboxamide compounds” are those as described in, for example, WO86/02641 or WO92/12970 and can be prepared by the method described therein.

Particular examples of the “carboxamide compounds” are as follows:

carboxamide compound represented by formula (1):

(hereinafter referred to as “carboxamide compound (1)”);

carboxamide compound represented by formula (2):

(hereinafter referred to as “carboxamide compound (2)”);

carboxamide compound represented by formula (3):

(hereinafter referred to as “carboxamide compound (3)”):

carboxamide compound represented by formula (4):

(hereinafter referred to as “carboxamide compound (4)”);

carboxamide compound represented by formula (5):

(hereinafter referred to as “carboxamide compound (5)”).

Ethaboxam is a known compound and described in, for example, “THE PESTICIDE MANUAL”—14th EDITION (published by BCPC) ISBN 1901396142.

This compound can be obtained from a product containing ethaboxam in the market or can be synthesized by publicly known methods.

The weight ratio of the “carboxamide compound” to ethaboxam in the “composition” is usually from 0.01/1 to 500/1, preferably from 0.1/1 to 10/1, and more preferably from 0.1/1 to 3/1 of carboxamide compound/ethaboxam.

Although the “composition” may be a mixture itself of a “carboxamide compound” and ethaboxam, the “composition” is usually prepared by mixing a “carboxamide compound”, ethaboxam and an inert carrier, and if necessary, by adding a surfactant and/or another auxiliary for formulation and by formulating the mixture into oil formulation, emulsifiable concentrate, flowable formulation, wettable powder, water dispersible granules, powder, granules, or the like. The formulation can be used alone or with another inert component as a plant disease control agent.

The total content of a “carboxamide compound” and ethaboxam in a “composition” is usually from 0.1% to 99% by weight, preferably from 0.2% to 90% by weight, and more preferably from 1% to 80% by weight.

Examples of the solid carriers used for the formulation include fine powder or granules of, for example, mineral materials such as kaolin clay, attapulgite clay, bentonite, montmorillonite, acid clay, pyrophillite, talc, diatomaceous earth and calcite; natural organic materials such as powder of maize ear stem and powder of milled walnut; synthesized organic materials such as urea; salts such as potassium carbonate and ammonium sulfate; synthesized inorganic materials such as synthesized hydrous silicon oxide.

Examples of the liquid carriers include aromatic hydrocarbons such as xylene, alkylbenzene and methylnaphthalene; alcohols such as 2-propanol, ethylene glycol, propylene glycol and ethylene glycol mono-ethyl ether; ketones such as acetone, cyclohexanone and isophorone; vegetable oils such as soybean oil and cotton seed oil; petrolic aliphatic hydrocarbons; esters; dimethylsulphoxide; acetonitrile; and water.

Examples of the surfactants include anionic surfactants such as alkyl sulfate ester salts, alkylarylsulfonate salts, dialkylsulfosuccinate salts, polyoxyethylene alkylaryl ether phosphonic acid ester salts, lignin sulfonic acid esters and naphthalene sulfonate folmaldehyde polycondensed products; non-ionic surfactants such as polyoxyethylene alkyl aryl ethers, polyoxyethylene alkyl polyoxypropylene block copolymers and sorbitan fatty acid esters; and cationic surfactants such as alkyl trimethyl ammonium salts.

Examples of the other auxiliaries for formulation include water-soluble polymers such as polyvinyl alcohol and polyvinylpyrrolidone; polysaccharides such as gum arabic, alginic acid and its salt, CMC (carboxymethylcellulose) and xanthan gum; inorganic materials such as aluminum magnesium silicate and alumina sol; preservatives; coloring agents; and stabilizers such as PAP (acidic isopropyl phosphate) and BHT.

The “composition” can be prepared by formulating each of a “carboxamide compound” and ethaboxam according to the method described above, followed by diluting each of the resultant formulations with water if necessary, and then mixing the formulation of the “carboxamide compound” and a the formulation of ethaboxam or mixing the diluted formulations.

The “composition” can be used for protecting a plant from a plant disease.

Examples of plant diseases which can be controlled by the “composition” include the followings.

Rice diseases: Magnaporthe grisea, Cochliobolus miyabeanus, Rhizoctonia solani, Gibberella fujikuroi;

Wheat diseases: Erysiphe graminis, Fusarium graminearum, F. avenaceum, F. culmorum, Microdochium nivale, Puccinia striiformis, P. graminis, P. recondita, Micronectriella nivale, Typhula sp., Ustilago tritici, Tilletia caries, Pseudocercosporella herpotrichoides, Mycosphaerella graminicola, Stagonospora nodorum, Pyrenophora tritici-repentis;

Barley diseases: Erysiphe graminis, Fusarium graminearum, F. avenacerum, F. culmorum, Microdochium nivale, Puccinia striiformis, P. graminis, P. hordei, Ustilago nuda, Rhynchosporium secalis, Pyrenophora teres, Cochliobolus sativus, Pyrenophora graminea, Rhizoctonia solani;

Maize diseases: Ustilago maydis, Cochliobolus heterostrophus, Gloeocercospora sorghi, Puccinia polysora, Cercospora zeae-maydis, Rhizoctonia solani;

Citrus diseases: Diaporthe citri, Elsinoe fawcetti, Penicillium digitatum, P. italicum, Phytophthora parasitica, Phytophthora citrophthora;

Apple diseases: Monilinia mali, Valsa ceratosperma, Podosphaera leucotricha, Alternaria alternata apple pathotype, Venturia inaequalis, Colletotrichum acutatum, Phytophtora cactorum;

Pear diseases: Venturia nashicola, V. pirina, Alternaria alternata Japanese pear pathotype, Gymnosporangium haraeanum, Phytophtora cactorum;

Peach diseases: Monilinia fructicola, Cladosporium carpophilum, Phomopsis sp.;

Grape diseases: Elsinoe ampelina, Glomerella cingulata, Uninula necator, Phakopsora ampelopsidis, Guignardia bidwellii, Plasmopara viticola;

Persimmon diseases: Gloesporium kaki, Cercospora kaki, Mycosphaerela nawae;

Gourd diseases: Colletotrichum lagenarium, Sphaerotheca fuliginea, Mycosphaerella melonis, Fusarium oxysporum, Pseudoperonospora cubensis, Phytophthora sp., Pythium sp.;

Tomato diseases: Alternaria solani, Cladosporium fulvum, Phytophthora infestans;

Eggplant diseases: Phomopsis vexans, Erysiphe cichoracearum;

Brassicaceous vegetable diseases: Alternaria japonica, Cercosporella brassicae, Plasmodiophora brassicae, Peronospora parasitica;

Welsh onion diseases: Puccinia allii, Peronospora destructor;

Soybean diseases: Cercospora kikuchii, Elsinoe glycines, Diaporthe phaseolorum var. sojae, Septoria glycines, Cercospora sojina, Phakopsora pachyrhizi, Phytophthora sojae, Rhizoctonia solani, Corynespora casiicola, Sclerotinia sclerotiorum;

Kidney bean diseases: Colletrichum lindemthianum;

Peanut diseases: Cercospora personata, Cercospora arachidicola, Sclerotium rolfsii;

Pea diseases: Erysiphe pisi;

Potato diseases: Alternaria solani, Phytophthora infestans, Phytophthora erythroseptica, Spongospora subterranean, f. sp. Subterranean;

Strawberry diseases: Sphaerotheca humuli, Glomerella cingulata;

Tea diseases: Exobasidium reticulatum, Elsinoe leucospila, Pestalotiopsis sp., Colletotrichum theae-sinensis;

Tobacco diseases: Alternaria longipes, Erysiphe cichoracearum, Colletotrichum tabacum, Peronospora tabacina, Phytophthora nicotianae;

Rapeseed diseases: Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, Rhizoctonia solani;

Cotton diseases: Rhizoctonia solani;

Beet diseases: Cercospora beticola, Thanatephorus cucumeris, Thanatephorus cucumeris, Aphanomyces cochlioides;

Rose diseases: Diplocarpon rosae, Sphaerotheca pannosa, Peronospora sparsa;

Diseases of chrysanthemum and asteraceae: Bremia lactuca, Septoria chrysanthemi indici, Puccinia horiana;

Diseases of various plants: Pythium aphanidermatum, Pythium debarianum, Pythium graminicola, Pythium irregulare, Pythium ultimum, Botrytis cinerea, Sclerotinia sclerotiorum;

Radish diseases: Alternaria brassicicola;

Zoysia diseases: Sclerotinia homeocarpa, Rhizoctonia solani;

Banana diseases: Mycosphaerella fijiensis, Mycosphaerella musicola;

Sunflower diseases: Plasmopara halstedii;

Seed diseases or diseases in the initial stage of growth of various plants caused by Aspergillus spp., Penicillium spp., Fusarium spp., Gibberella spp., Tricoderma spp., Thielaviopsis spp., Rhizopus spp., Mucor spp., Corticium spp., Rhoma spp., Rhizoctonia spp., Diplodia spp., or the like;

Virus diseases of various plants mediated by Polymixa spp., Olpidium spp. or the like.

Examples of the plants for which the “composition” can be used are as follows:

Agricultural crops: maize, rice, wheat, barley, rye, oat, sorghum, cotton, soybean, peanut, buckwheat, sugar beet, rapeseed, sunflower, sugar cane, tobacco plant, and the like;

Vegetables: Solanaceous vegetables (eggplant, tomato, green pepper, hot pepper, potato, etc.), Cucurbitaceous vegetables (cucumber, pumpkin, zucchini, watermelon, melon, squash, etc.); Cruciferous vegetables (radish, turnip, horseradish, kohlrabi, Chinese cabbage, cabbage, brown mustard, broccoli, cauliflower, etc.), Asteraceous vegetables (burdock, garland chrysanthemum, artichoke, lettuce, etc.), Liliaceous vegetables (Welsh onion, onion, garlic, asparagus, etc.), Umbelliferous vegetables (carrot, parsley, celery, parsnip, etc.), Chenopodiaceous vegetables (spinach, chard, etc.), Lamiaceous vegetables (Japanese basil, mint, basil, etc.), strawberry, sweet potato, yam, aroid, and the like;

Flowering plants;

Ornamental foliage plants;

Turf;

Fruit trees: pome fruits (apple, common pear, Japanese pear, Chinese quince, quince, etc.), stone fruits (peach, plum, nectarine, Japanese plum, cherry, apricot, prune, etc.), citrus (mandarin, orange, lemon, lime, grapefruit, etc.), nuts (chestnut, walnut, hazel nut, almond, pistachio, cashew nut, macadamia nut, etc.), berry fruits (blueberry, cranberry, blackberry, raspberry, etc.), grape, persimmon, olive, loquat, banana, coffee, date, coconut palm, and the like;

Trees other than fruit trees: tea, mulberry, flowering trees, street trees (ash tree, birch, dogwood, eucalyptus, ginkgo, lilac, maple tree, oak, poplar, cercis, Chinese sweet gum, plane tree, zelkova, Japanese arborvitae, fir tree, Japanese hemlock, needle juniper, pine, spruce, yew), and the like.

The above-described plants may be those having resistance imparted by genetic engineering technique.

Among the above plants, the “composition” is expected to have excellent controlling effect particularly to plant diseases caused in soybean.

Among the above plant diseases, the soybean diseases to which especially excellent effect of the “composition” can be expected are Rhizoctonia solani, Cercospora kikuchii, Septoria glycines, Corynespora casiicola, Phakopsora pachyrizi, Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, Cercospora sojina, and the like.

Following compositions exemplify an embodiment of the “composition”:

a composition comprising “carboxamide compound (1)” and ethaboxam;

a composition comprising “carboxamide compound (2)” and ethaboxam;

a composition comprising “carboxamide compound (3)” and ethaboxam;

a composition comprising “carboxamide compound (4)” and ethaboxam;

a composition comprising “carboxamide compound (5)” and ethaboxam;

a composition comprising “carboxamide compound (1)” and ethaboxam in which the weight ratio of “carboxamide compound (1)” to ethaboxam is 0.1/1 to 10/1;

a composition comprising “carboxamide compound (2)” and ethaboxam in which the weight ratio of “carboxamide compound (2)” to ethaboxam is 0.1/1 to 10/1;

a composition comprising “carboxamide compound (3)” and ethaboxam in which the weight ratio of “carboxamide compound (3)” to ethaboxam is 0.1/1 to 10/1;

a composition comprising “carboxamide compound (4)” and ethaboxam in which the weight ratio of “carboxamide compound (4)” to ethaboxam is 0.1/1 to 10/1;

a composition comprising “carboxamide compound (5)” and ethaboxam in which the weight ratio of “carboxamide compound (5)” to ethaboxam is 0.1/1 to 10/1;

The method of controlling a plant disease (hereinafter referred to as “controlling method”) can be carried out by treating a plant or the soil where a plant grows with an effective amount of a “carboxamide compound” and ethaboxam.

The part of plant to be treated is stem and leaf of a plant, seed or bulb of a plant, and the bulb means bulb, corm, rootstock, tuber, tuberous root and rhizophore.

In the “controlling method”, the treatment of a plant or the soil where a plant grows with a “carboxamide compound” and ethaboxam can be carried out separately at the same timing, but the treatment is usually carried out by using a “composition” in light of convenience.

In the “controlling method”, the treatment with a carboxamide compound” and ethaboxam is, for example, stems and leaves application, soil application, roots application or seeds application.

Examples of the stems and leaves application include a treatment for surface of cultivated plant by a stem and leaves spray or a stem and tree spray.

Examples of the root application include a method of dipping a whole plant or root of a plant into a liquid containing a “carboxamide compound” and ethaboxam and a method of sticking a solid preparation comprising a “carboxamide compound”, ethaboxam and a solid carrier onto root of a plant.

Examples of the soil application include a method of spraying a “composition” onto a soil, a method of mixing a “composition” with a soil and a method of irrigating a “composition” into the soil.

Examples of the seed application include a method of treating seeds or bulbs of a plant to be protected from a plant disease with a “composition”. Particularly, the application can be carried out by spraying a suspension of a “composition” to the surface of seeds or bulbs, or by spreading wettable powder, emulsifiable concentrate or flowable formulation itself or a mixture thereof with a small amount of water on the seeds or the bulbs, or by dipping the seeds into a solution of a “composition” for a prescribed time, by film coating application or pellet coating application.

The amount of a “carboxamide compound” and ethaboxam used in the “controlling method” is different depending on the kind of a plant to be treated, the kind of a plant disease to be controlled and its frequency, the kind of a formulation, timing of treatment, method of treatment, place of treatment, weather condition, and the like.

When a “composition” is applied to stems and/or leaves of a plant or to the soil where a plant grows, the total amount of a “carboxamide compound” and ethaboxam is usually from 1 g to 500 g/1000 m², preferably from 2 g to 200 g/1000 m² and more preferably from 10 g to 100 g/1000 m².

When a “composition” is applied to seeds of a plant, the total amount of a “carboxamide compound” and ethaboxam is usually from 0.001 g to 10 g/1 kg of the seeds, and preferably from 0.01 g to 1 g/1 kg of the seeds.

An emulsifiable concentrate, wettable powder or flowable formulation is used usually by diluting the formulation with water and spraying the diluted formulation. In this case, the concentration of a “carboxamide compound” and ethaboxam in total of the diluted formulation is usually from 0.0005% to 2% by weight and preferably from 0.005% to 1% by weight.

A powder formulation, granule formulation, and the like is usually used without dilution.

EXAMPLE

The present invention is further explained in detail with Formulation Examples and Test Examples. However, the present invention is not limited by the following Examples.

In the following Examples, “part” means “part by weight” unless otherwise provided.

Formulation Example 1

One of “carboxamide compounds” (1) to (5) (2.5 parts), ethaboxam (1.25 parts), polyoxyethylene styryl phenyl ether (14 parts), calcium dodecylbenzene sulfonate (6 parts) and xylene (76.25 parts) are mixed well to give each of formulations, respectively.

Formulation Example 2

One of “carboxamide compounds” (1) to (5) (2 parts), ethaboxam (8 parts), a mixture of white carbon and polyoxyethylene alkyl ether sulfate ammonium salt (weight ratio 1:1) (35 parts) and water (55 parts) are mixed and milled by wet-milling method to give each of formulations, respectively.

Formulation Example 3

One of “carboxamide compounds” (1) to (5) (5 parts), ethaboxam (10 parts), sorbitan tri-oleate (1.5 parts) and an aqueous solution (28.5 parts) containing polyvinyl alcohol (2 parts) are mixed and the mixture is milled by wet-milling method. To the milled mixture is added an aqueous solution (45 parts) containing xanthan gum (0.05 parts) and aluminum magnesium silicate (0.1 part), and further propylene glycol (10 parts) is added to the mixture. The resultant mixture is mixed by stirring to give each of formulations, respectively.

Formulation Example 4

One of “carboxamide compounds” (1) to (5) (1 part), ethaboxam (4 parts), synthesized hydrous silicon oxide (1 part), calcium ligninsulfonate (2 parts), bentonite (30 parts) and kaolin clay (62 parts) are thoroughly mixed and milled. Water is added to the mixture and the mixture is sufficiently kneaded, granulated and then dried to give each of formulations, respectively.

Formulation Example 5

One of “carboxamide compounds” (1) to (5) (12.5 parts), ethaboxam (37.5 parts), calcium ligninsulfonate (3 parts), sodium lauryl sulfate (2 parts) and synthesized hydrous silicon oxide (45 parts) are thoroughly mixed and milled to give each of formulations, respectively.

Formulation Example 6

One of “carboxamide compounds” (1) to (5) (3 parts), ethaboxam (2 parts), kaolin clay (85 parts) and talc (10 parts) are thoroughly mixed and milled to give each of formulations, respectively.

Test Examples using each of the “compositions” are shown in the following.

Test Example 1

A cyclohexanone solution (100 microL) containing prescribed amount (weight) of a test compound was applied on seeds of soybean (variety: Natto Shoryu) (10 g) by using a rotary apparatus for seed treatment (Seed dresser, manufactured by Hans-Ulrich Hege GmbH).

One day after the application, plastic pot was filled with soil contaminated by Rhizoctonia solani, and the seeds treated with the test compounds were seeded in the soil and cultivated in a glass-greenhouse for 20 days (hereinafter referred to as “treated plot”).

Thereafter, the presence of disease caused by Rhizoctonia solani in the young plants which germinated from each seed was observed and disease severity was calculated according to the following calculation formula (1).

On the other hand, seeds of soybean which were not treated as above were cultivated in the same way as above (hereinafter referred to as “non-treated plot”) and disease severity in the “non-treated plot” was calculated in the same way as the above “treated plot”.

On the basis of the above disease severity in the “treated plot” and the “non-treated plot”, efficacy in the “treated plot” was evaluated according to the following calculation formula (2).

The results are shown in Table 1 and Table 2.

Calculation formula (1):

Disease severity (%)=(number of infected young plants/total number of young plants)×100

Calculation formula (2):

Efficacy (%)=[1−(disease severity in “treated plot”/disease severity in “non-treated plot”)]×100

TABLE 1 “Carboxamide compound (1)” Ethaboxam [g/100 kg of seeds] [g/100 kg of seeds] Efficacy (%) 2 5 100

TABLE 2 “Carboxamide compound (5)” Ethaboxam [g/100 kg of seeds] [g/100 kg of seeds] Efficacy (%) 2 5 100

Industrial Applicability

A plant disease control composition comprising a “carboxamide compound” represented by formula (I) and ethaboxam is useful for controlling plant disease. 

1. A plant disease control composition comprising a carboxamide compound represented by formula (I):

wherein R¹ represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, and R² represents a methyl group, a difluoromethyl group or a trifluoromethyl group, and ethaboxam.
 2. The plant disease control composition according to claim 1, wherein the weight ratio of the carboxamide compound to ethaboxam is from 0.1/1 to 10/1 of carboxamide compound/ethaboxam.
 3. A method of controlling plant disease which comprises a step of treating a plant or the soil where a plant grows with an effective amount of a carboxamide compound represented by formula (I):

wherein R¹ represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, and R² represents a methyl group, a difluoromethyl group or a trifluoromethyl group, and ethaboxam.
 4. The method of controlling plant disease according to claim 3, wherein weight ratio of the carboxamide compound to ethaboxam is from 0.1/1 to 10/1 of carboxamide compound/ethaboxam.
 5. The method of controlling plant disease according to claim 3, wherein the plant or the soil where a plant grows is soybean or the soil where soybean grows, respectively.
 6. The method of controlling plant disease according to claim 4, wherein the plant or the soil where a plant grows is soybean or the soil where soybean grows, respectively. 